Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HORSLEY

HORSLEY, a chapelry in Elsdon parish, Northumberland; on the river Reed, 3 miles NNW of Otterburn, and 7 N by W of Woodburn r. station. Post town, Otterburn, under Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Elsdon, in the diocese of Durham. The church is a modern edifice, in the Lombardic style, with an apse.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Elsdon AP/CP       Northumberland AncC
Place: Horsley By Elsdon

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